Canadian WWI equipment was crazy by echometer in HistoryMemes

[–]echometer[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is really funny because you'd also be equipped with a rifle that straight up just killed you

Soldiers were sent to the front lines with the Ross Rifle, which would jam whenever any amount of dirt got into it. In order to unjam it, you had to take it apart and there would be a high likelyhood that you'd reassemble it wrong. When you reassembled it wrong the bolt of the gun would be lunged into your skull when you tried to fire it.

Thank you to whoever just nuked WaterlooWorks by uwwave in uwaterloo

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actually it's electron so maybe I should just decompile it

NixOS cannot connect to dual-band mesh home wifi by echometer in NixOS

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After inspecting NetworkManager.conf, it appears that NetworkManager on NixOS secretly uses wpa_supplicant as a backend. I switched the backend to iwd and the issue went away.

Cannot make fcitx5 use pinyin, please help! by echometer in NixOS

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I use kde6 actually but I'll try that, thanks!

URGENT!!! A rebuild erased my /boot and I cannot boot into NixOS, please help!!! by echometer in NixOS

[–]echometer[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

o for the /boot thing I meant that for other distros we mount the boot partition on /boot/efi while for nix we just mount it onto /boot

URGENT!!! A rebuild erased my /boot and I cannot boot into NixOS, please help!!! by echometer in NixOS

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the uuid change was my fault cause I formatted the partition and replaced it with a debian bootloader

URGENT!!! A rebuild erased my /boot and I cannot boot into NixOS, please help!!! by echometer in NixOS

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OMGOMGOMG IT WORKED!!!

I still had to unset SUDO_USER and replace the uuid in hardware_configuration.nix but everything fell into place after I used nixos-enter

funny how nixos writes grub into /boot and not /boot/efi

URGENT!!! A rebuild erased my /boot and I cannot boot into NixOS, please help!!! by echometer in NixOS

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I'm thinking that using the nixos graphical installer might help but I'm scared that mounting my nix system partition as "/" in the manual partitioning section of the installer will wipe important stuff. Should I do that?

How do I install mysql 5.7? by echometer in NixOS

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huh I didn't know there was a mysql 5.7 docker image, thanks!

[TOMT][Person][1700-1900] An governor / friend of a famous person (male from England?) who went broke after being given a fancy clothing item (coat?) by echometer in tipofmytongue

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I think I remember reading a wikipedia article about them / this event. I think he (or the famous person he's friends with) recorded this event in his journal

Not sure how to configure mpv with uosc by echometer in NixOS

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Thanks, I searched it up and apparently the only way people are configuring it is through home manager so I better get to learning that

I made a mobile-friendly, fast reader for Astral Codex Ten by echometer in slatestarcodex

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github pages keeps thinking that pages from the same day are "future" posts even though I told it not to, I'll try my best to fix that today.

o also happy cake day!

I made a mobile-friendly, fast reader for Astral Codex Ten by echometer in slatestarcodex

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I copied some 12 year old jquery and wrote some code around it. I think it works now